The C.G. Jung Foundation Continuing Education courses are five-week courses designed to be informative and stimulating both to the general public and to professionals. Our program offers you the opportunity to study and explore analytical psychology, the works of C.G. Jung, and fields of related interest.

These courses will be offered through the online program Zoom. After you enroll in a course and before the first class session, you will be emailed instructions and a Zoom invitation. Please be sure to download the Zoom program on your device before the first class session at Zoom.us. It is a free program. Also please send us your email address and daytime telephone number. These programs will not be recorded.

Note: 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for the Jungian Dream Interpretation course.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc. is recognized by New York State Education Department’s State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0350, and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts, #P-0015, and licensed creative arts therapists, #CAT-0068.

For licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts or Creative Arts Therapists applying for CE credit to receive accreditation, students must attend all sessions. Please be sure to send us your NYS profession and license number

Fall I: Classes begin in October on Zoom

 

Jungian Dream Interpretation
5 consecutive Thursdays, 6:00-7:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online only via Zoom.
Beginning October 9, 2025
Instructor: Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP

7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists.

A dream uses an imagistic language we can decipher. This language is universal, the same as used in myths from stone-age cultures. A dream shows us the next possible step in our developing personality. It warns us if we are going astray, encourages us if we need it, or offers penetrating insights into our confusion. We work together as a team and have fun. We confirm or disconfirm each interpretation with experimental evidence. We will not work with class members’ dreams. Please bring a dream, with permission, from a family member or friend.

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Moving the Needle:
A Jungian Approach to Archetypes in the Second Half of Life
5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Eastern Time, USA via Zoom
Beginning October 27, 2025
Instructor: Mary Apikos

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

Youth, as a stage of life, has been put front and center in literary fairy tales, often more so than the stages of midlife and older age. This course is an overview of what has been lost, forgotten and deliberately erased from canonical collections such as The Brothers Grimm. Over the five sessions, we will do an in-depth study of two stories, one a Grimms' tale and another from the folkloric record, that showcase their difference from youth tales. We will explore archetypes and motifs of role reversals, inversions of fortune, acquisition of wisdom and the effectiveness of collective action in stories about the second half of life.

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Fall II: Classes begin the week of November 10, 2025 on Zoom

 

 

"The Questions That Shape a Life”
How Jung’s Ideas Help Us to Meet Our Real Needs
5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online only via Zoom.
Beginning November 10, 2025
Distinguished Senior Instructor: David Rottman, MA

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

Jung thought of his discoveries as living tools for personal inquiry and development. He wanted his ideas to be used, personally, urgently, and with real benefits. In each of the five sessions in this course, we will focus on a single, essential question—one that most of us encounter, often more than once, across the course of a lifetime.

We will explore how these questions emerge and what they first suggest to us, then later often require of us, and even demand of us. As Jung says, working on our personal questions can guide us into deeper fulfillment of how we live our lives.

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - C.G. Jung

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Consciousness – Accessible and Unbound: Exploring Two Perspectives –
Jung’s Unconscious and Gebser’s Structures of Consciousness 
5 Thursdays, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Eastern Time, USA, online only via Zoom.
Beginning November 13, 2025 (excluding November 27)
Instructor: Bob Piller, JD

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

What shapes your reality? This course, Consciousness: Accessible and Unbound, explores the profound impact of consciousness on our lives. We will journey through the insights of Carl Jung and Jean Gebser, two pioneers who illuminated the depths of the human mind. We will delve into Jung's concept of consciousness as a “precondition of being” and Gebser's vision of consciousness as a dynamic, unfolding process. Through their insights, we will examine how archetypes – especially those tied to power and community – and shifting structures of awareness shape our understanding of ourselves and the world.
Weekly exercises will offer hands-on engagement with your own consciousness.

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FACULTY

Mary Apikos taught at Parsons School of Design NYC for 17 years.  She taught inter-disciplinary courses about aspects of design culture that fell through the cracks to people who fell through the cracks. She is ABD in Cultural Anthropology from CUNY Graduate Center and has worked as an ethnographic textile conservator at the Museum of the American Indian, George Heye Foundation NYC and in private practice where she specialized in the care of sacred materials. In 2022 Mary completed a one-year remote applied arts program at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies in South Africa and is on staff at The London Arts Based Research Centre. She is a working artist and currently resides in Chicago. Her work can be seen on her website maryapikos.com

Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP, is a senior Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City.  Former President of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, he is also a longtime faculty member. He has taught courses in dream interpretation online and in person for over 25 years.  He has published numerous papers on dream interpretation, Jungian psychology, narcissistic injury, systems theory and autism.

Bob Piller, JD, is a retired public interest lawyer with a lifelong passion for understanding human transformation – why we change, why we resist change, and how consciousness can be intensified.  His studies focus on the alchemical and esoteric works of Carl Jung, the thinkers who influenced Jung, and those shaped by his legacy.  He serves on the Board of Trustees of the C.G. Jung Foundation in New York and is deeply inspired by the genius of Jean Gebser.  He teaches courses on Gebserian consciousness and its profound connection to Jung’s understanding of soul and the unconscious.  In 2023, Bob presented "Common Ground Emerging: Gebser’s Intensification and Jung’s Differentiation" at the Gebser Society Annual Conference.

David Rottman, MA, Distinguished Senior Instructor of the Jung Foundation’s Continuing Education Faculty, is past President of the C.G. Jung Foundation. He is the author of The Career as a Path to the Soul. He was the editor and publisher for The Way of the Image by Yoram Kaufmann. He has an international private practice.

These are online courses, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us

REGISTRATION

The full fee must be paid at the time of registration. Please register through the payment buttons on this website.

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TUITION
All 5-week courses are $175 for the general public and $150 for members.

IMPORTANT NOTES

When you pay you must also email your current email address and telephone number to the Foundation at cgjungny@aol.com. The Foundation will send you an email message and you must reply to confirm receipt. If you are taking this course for 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists, please specify which license you hold and give your NYS license number.

Class size is limited. Early registration is strongly recommended. Refunds for continuing education courses, less $15 for administrative services, will be made up to seven days before the first session. There will be no refunds issued after classes have begun. No exceptions will be made. Programs are subject to change without notice.

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